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From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Message-Id: <199512081800.NAA11824@lakes>
To: time.cdrom.com!jkh@dg-rtp.dg.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: Another problem with sysinstall with SL/IP.
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> 
> > No, it must be
> > 
> > network_interfaces="lo0"
> > 
> > sl0 cannot be initialized at boot time, since the initialization can
> > only be done after slattach has turned the port into something that
> > can speak IP.  This case is not handled by the current /etc/rc and
> 
> True enough, though it's still a bug. :-)
> 
> I'm still in sysinstall-avoidance mode after 2.1, but I hope to work
> up the courage to approach it again soon.  Since it's going to be
> around for the lifetime of 2.1.x, I wouldn't also mind a little help
> if anyone feels like jumping in and helping me to improve the installation.
> 
> I think I've done this one more or less alone for long enough.. :-)
> It's not just a question of shared workload either - monotheism in an
> installation program is not always a good thing. :-)
> 
> 					Jordan
> 

 Well, the values I had before (network_interfaces="sl0 lo0")
worked great in 2.0.5.  

 The behaviour it has was to go ahead and assign the proper IP
addresses to sl0.

 Of course, the network was unavailable until the slattach was
performed, but I did that when I wanted to connect to my ISP.

	- Dave Rivers -